I AM HAMLET PROJECT

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A community-wide exploration of Shakespeare's most famous play

FEB. 4 UPDATE: With 10 days to go in our campaign, the Delaware Humanities Forum has awarded a $2,905 grant to our "I Am Hamlet" Project! (Much thanks to the DHF!) Now it's up to you to help us fully fund the program! Learn more about the project below, share with your friends, and help us bring Hamlet out to the streets of Delaware!

And the big questions: When to fight? When to flee? When to act? When to just ... be?

I Am Hamlet, and Hamlet is me.

More than 400 years later, it's still easy to get inside Hamlet's head, because Hamlet still lives today.

We here at the Delaware Shakespeare Festival are incredibly excited to produce Hamlet this summer (July 11-27 at Rockwood Park!), but there's so much to talk about in this play, so much that's relevant to the world and to Delaware, that we can't wait for July.

And that's why we're launching the "I Am Hamlet" Project.

Through the "I Am Hamlet" Project, we plan to take Hamlet to the people of Delaware, from classroom workshops to retirement home discussions, from on-the-street interviews to the Twitterverse. We want to explore the themes of Hamlet that resonate strongly with Delawareans, sparking a conversation that will hopefully lead to self-reflection in ourselves and in our community. At the end, we plan to bring it all together in a big public forum, an "I Am Hamlet" Project town hall at Wilmington University.

To do all that, we need your help. We've applied for some grants to help fund the project, but we need to raise additional money to pay for the travel, the spaces, the technology and the time to bring the "I Am Hamlet" Project to life. (For more details on the project, please visit the Delaware Shakespeare Festival website.) Please share our page, contribute anything you can (every little bit helps, truly), and join us this spring as we say: "I Am Hamlet."

Special thanks to all our Hamlets who donated their time for our video, including:

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YORICKS: For all our supporters of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy, we shall announce your name in the printed program at our summer production of "Hamlet," with our most gracious thanks.

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HORATIOS: Alas, we know you well, and so will all of our fellow supporters when your name appears on screen at our "I Am Hamlet" town hall and we list you in the program for our summer production.

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OPHELIAS: We have remembrances of yours that we long to redeliver, in the form of programs from this summer's production of "Hamlet" SIGNED BY THE ENTIRE CAST, along with all previous expressions of gratitude found at the Horatio level. (Note: Cast programs will not be mailed out until July.)

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GERTRUDES: The lady (or gent) will NOT protest too much when they receive an official cast poster from this summer's production of "Hamlet" SIGNED BY THE ENTIRE CAST, along with all previous expressions of gratitude found at the Horatio level. (Note: Signed posters will not be mailed out until July.)

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FORTINBRASES: We call the noblest to the audience, for those who pledge at this level are invited to be our guests at the first rehearsal for "Hamlet" (date to be announced) at the OperaDelaware studios, where the actors will meet and director David Stradley will reveal his vision for this summer's production. And, of course, all our Horatio-level thanks.

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POLONIUSES: The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, as do the words of Shakespeare to the ears of students, when performed by members of our education team at the Delaware Shakespeare Festival. Benefactors at this level will sponsor a DSF Shakespearean workshop at the Delaware school of their choice, at a time and date mutually agreeable between the school and DSF staff. And, of course, all our Horatio-level thanks.

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HAMLETS: "Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny." But to express our gratitude, DSF's Producing Artistic Director will come to your home and perform his one-man "How I Came to Love Shakespeare" show, at a mutually agreeable day and time, with delightfully light munchies and wine provided by DSF. And we'll throw in some Horatio-level thanks, posters and other thanks too. Really, it will be neat.